is my power supply enough for my system?

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avann4858

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corsair 430w cx430 80+ bronze for

GPU-R9 270 2GB
CPU-Amd athlon x4 740
Ram-8GB (4GBx2) of G.skill ripjaws x series
hardrive- WD blue caviar 1TB
CASE-Nzxt source 210, (also the case has only one fan)
and lastly i also purchased a crappy lite on dvd drive only for installing windows 7 os. basiclly i just bought all these parts yesterday and didnt really think about the power supply to much because every youtube video on building a gaming pc recomended what i bought but i obviously dont wana hurt my system so came here for help. thanks for any guidance or help u guys provide
 
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thanks for the help bud, so do you think i should be alright with that proccesor for a bit? i only wana play games like day z and metro and the proccesor requirments dont look to large for the most part

IMO i think you will enjoy it, i shouldn't imagine the 'bottleneck' , if there is one, will be too bad.
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Your just about alright. Your system draws 378 Watts (approx). Use a calculator in the future: (http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp) but I would go with at least 500w even if it is not corsair

Your system looks bottlenecked - why are u getting a powerful GPU like that and so much ram but a completely underpowered CPU? at least get a phenom 965 - maybe look at the FX series

however if you bought these parts - you will be alright. Check with the calculator and upgrade PSU as soon as you start adding lots of more stuff

Tom
 
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Thanks for the help scampi, to be honest i originally planned on getting the fx 6300, for $120 but i ran into some money issues and i thought that the quad core athlon x4 740 rated at 3.2 ghz for 4 cores was sufficent for gaming, excuse for my lack of knowledge but what does bottleneck mean? its not gonna hurt my comp or anything? if so i guess i will try to get better cpu but that would mean having to get a whole new motherboard too right?

 
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Athlon II x 4 740 : http://www.amazon.co.uk/AMD-AD740XOKHJBOX-Processor-3-20GHz-Technology/dp/B009O40UJO

^^ This one that uses FM2 socket, so if you wanted an FX 6300 or greater, you'd need an AM3+ socket motherboard.

Bottlenecking is a term used to mean that one component can't keep up with the other or hold it back to some extent.
 
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thanks for the help bud, so do you think i should be alright with that proccesor for a bit? i only wana play games like day z and metro and the proccesor requirments dont look to large for the most part

IMO i think you will enjoy it, i shouldn't imagine the 'bottleneck' , if there is one, will be too bad.
 
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